Memorial High School - Talon Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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Franklin Technical School. . . More than anything else, Tech will help me for future life, commented one student. Teachers agreed. Mr. Walter Pearson, vocational math teacher, said, we offer occupational skills with the pur- pose of making the student employablef' Tech not only offered job training, but also employment. One teacher said, I have been able to get employment upon gradua- tion for 60 percent of my students in the field they have been trained in. Although the school is located across town next to Parkwood, bussing didn't seem to bother the students. Students from both high schools spent half of their day at Tech and the remaining part at their respective high schools. Almost all of them answered no to the question: Would you like to have all your regular classes at Park- wood for conveniences' sake? Student comments on teachers were favorable: They really work with you and act like they really care, and They understand teenagers. On the question of improvements for Tech, many claimed that lunch hours weren't long enough and one male student would improve the school by having only twenty-year-old female teachers. The vocational curriculum at Tech involved such classes as woodwork, sheetmetal, machine shop, auto mechanics and nursing. Dll'9CTOf John AtKlI'lS lg M ff

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. 532' :QQ la-I-.4 Physical fitness . . . Two coaches and three women physical education teachers instructed five gym classes of boys and girls, plus a six weeks course of health for each grade. Students held varying views on health class ranging from Helps you understand the workings of the body ljunior girly, lt teaches you first aid lfreshman boyj to Noah lived 300 years and he didn't take health lfresh- man girll. A coach stated, It gives basic facts concern- ing personal hygiene. However, a girls' gym teacher said, Health tries the patience of students, teachers, and God!! t Teachers stated their ideas on improvements they would like to see in Memorial's gym facilities. A class- room somewhere in the gym for health . . . I think we have excellent facilities and equipment, but no place to use them . . . Enlarge our outside area . . . With a girls' gym we could really build a great athletic departmentg men aren't the only athletes in the world, although they'd like to be. Hallelujah , Great were the most common ex- pressions of students when they found out there would be no physical fitness tests this year. Instructors explained why the test was not administered: Main reason is that students don't really try-therefore making the physical fitness test invalid . . . Lack of interest of the students . . . In all the years I have given the tests I have never known how my students compared to other classes in town or the national average. lt takes many weeks out of the year which could be used for activities that would be more interesting to students and teachers alike. We discussed this with our athletic director before school started and decided not to give them. There was no consensus concerning the most en- joyable part of gym class. Boys voted for bombardment and basketball, with one vote going to showers . Girls favored volleyball, basketball, and the last five minutes of gym class. WHILE GIRLS enjoyed kickball ltop rightj, boys worked strenuously to build their muscles llop leftl. Shelly Oliver lbotlom Ieftj tum- bled down the mat, Gerri Miller Ibottom rightl ran the hurdles.

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af, we 4-' ,A ,gi uf , ' 'W EQ ' L '1 .,,' AVL..-f I .mx zz' 5 Q x 2 'L ...X QI!! V' , l i Ht A N ' 1 A 1 . in-J! JOHN ATKINS, director of Franklin Technical School, did paper- work to be typed by Edna Johnson ffar leftl. Shawn Fream and Steve Ansley tabove leftl looked over new monitoring system ac- quired by Tech. Betty Hughes, nurse, and Joyce Shields fabove rightl studied skeletal system. Classes in auto mechanics, metal work, woodshop and architectural drafting tcenterl taught skills. David Behymer Auto Mechanics Carl Graham Industrial Sheet Metal Drafting Cecil Petefish Sheet Metal Keith Wormington Machine Shop H. Lee Williams welding Louis McMillan Electronics Vivian Tanquary Practical Nursing Gerald Pitts coE Alice Hess Practical Nursing Mary Beaty Practical Nursing Betty Hughes Practical Nursing Robert Hainline Cabinet Jo Ann Witter Practical Nursing Walter Pearson Related Math Leonard Sale Drafting Machine Design